Comment on Boys will be boys

• NoPanko@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If they are active then yeah, 4000 calories is not at all unusual as a teen.

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  • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Damn, maybe that’s why I didn’t grow

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    • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is unironically a big part of why people, on average, used to be shorter and why populations become taller as their country/region becomes wealthier.

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  • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And not empty calories, that’s the important part

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Easily. From 14-17 I lived on a 5,000 calorie diet and struggled to gain weight, between marching band, PE, shop class, an avid skating hobby, a girlfriend, and growing in height. I could have easily eaten an entire chicken at the time.

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• a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Growing takes a lot of calories.

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• Andonyx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you’re a bad enough dude, a whole rotisserie chicken is only one heart.

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• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, pretty much.

  I remember eating 4000 to 6000 calories a day in high school. I could put away two double whopper meals - large fries, large coke - in a sitting.

  Or a 16" pizza, with plenty of room for Jo-jos.

  Or 4 big plates of spaghetti, with half a loaf of garlic bread, and salad until there was no more salad to be had.

  I was scrawny. Too scrawny for high school sports. 5’9", but I didn’t break 100lbs until my senior year.

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• snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If they are physically active, yes.

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